Migration movements of Bronze Age populations across Eurasia
Posted on 07/15/2020 7:36:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The burial ground is located near the city of Lisakovsk in the Kostanay region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Archeologist Emma Usmanova from Karaganda State University has been working on it for several decades. About 3,500 years ago, people of the Andronovo culture lived on this territory. A distinctive feature of the culture of that period was the development of horse breeding. The animals were used not only for food but also for harnessing to chariots and riding.
This is confirmed by the remains of horses that were discovered in the burial ground Novoilinovsky-2. Scientists drew attention to the approximate age of the buried animals: The stallion was about 20 years old, and the mare was about 18. For the beef cattle, their lifespan was too long. There were details of ancient bridles near the horses. Thus, scientists established a new hypothesis: animals were sacrificially buried with the person whom they accompanied during their lifetime.
A scientist from SUSU Igor Chechushkov took part in the laboratory and analytical part of the study. He analyzed the burials, radiocarbon dates... of the found artifacts and horse bones.
"We received radiocarbon dates that made it possible to date the complex with an accuracy of several decades. A comparison of these dates with the known ones allowed us to conclude that horsemanship, that is, the use of horses in military affairs, began to be practiced much earlier than many researchers had previously expected. So the accepted date for the formation of horsemanship is about 900 BC. Our materials suggest that armed horsemen who fought on horseback could have appeared in the Eurasian steppes no later than 1600 BC," Igor Chechushkov said.
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I wonder who the first leader was 3500 years ago who thought “hey if we are on these horses when we go into battle and they are not we will destroy them”
Or maybe lots of different groups figured that out separately
Ruth Bader Ginsburg's first job?
700 years is a significant adjustment, quite an achievment if the new estimate holds up.
Worked out well for Genghis Khan, but that was later.
Weren’t the Egyptians using chariots before that?
Troy was part of the Bronze age and they were known for their horses. Not just the Trojan Horse either.
Hector’s epithet was “tamer of horses”
Although there is evidence that horses were domesticated thousands of years prior.
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